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The Clinton News Record, 1934-07-19, Page 3THURS., JULY 19, 1934 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAGE 3 fikft)' What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TIM LAST CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? From The News -Record July 18th, the mark. On going to the chicken 1894: Haying is well under way and in many sections completed . . The harvesting of wheat will be general this week. The yield, it is expected, will on the whole be the 'best for years. The dread fire alarm sounded a- bout five minutes to five last Satur- day morning. The fire field was snaking rapid headway in Mr. Jacob Miller's blacksmith shop in Princess street .. The next store,Cantelon Bros. grocery, was also being scorch- ed in the rear and one of the firm broke in the front door just in time to save the books and ,valuable pa- pers . A large tank for street wat- ering erin , at the rear of the blacksmith shop gave way and the gush of sev- eral hundred barrels of water check- ed the flames considerably and great, 1y assisted the firemen . , . The fire while it lasted was one of the most fierce seen in Clinton for some time. *, DE - From The New Era, July 20th, 1894: The first new potatoes of the sea - sen were presented to us by Mr. Charley Calton of the 16th comes- sion of Goderich township, Jackson Bros. recently filled en order for 53 white vests and silk hats for Kinlough Orange Lodge. Last year they fitted Lucknow lodge with a similar order and this year Luck - new added fifteen more. Mr, J. P. Tisdall now has his house lighted throughout with electricity. About 600 tickets were sold to Goderich on Wednesday for the Sun- day school picnics. The other evening Mrs. Adam Fos- ter and babe ` had a narrow escape from serious injury. Mrs. Poster was crossing the track on Victoria street with the baby in a carriage. A box car stood close to the cros- sing and Mrs. Posterdid' not ob- serve that there was an engine at- tached to it and just as she got be, hind the car the engine backed, knocking over the carriage. Quick as possible Mrs. Foster snatched the baby out of death's jaws, while the. car destroyed the buggy. The following is a report of the baseball game between Clinton and Bayfield nines, sent in by a Bayfield correspondent: Great excitement prevailed here on Monday evening last when Capt. ',Spaulding of Clinton arrived with a crack nine to contest a game of Base- ball against our crack nine. Busi- ness was entirely suspended and all places of industry closed early to al- low all to witness the match, and even the guests at all our hotels hur- ried their supper to be there on time. The game was called for 6.16. Mr. Clark and Mr. •Chidley, tourists, who are stopping here for the summer with their families, were invited to play and constituted the battery, Mr. McMurchie and Mr. Spaulding the battery for Clinton.. The (betting. was in favor of Clinton before the game, but changed to 5 to 1 on Bay- field when it was seen that the Clin- ton 'boys could not do anything with Mr. CChidley's curves and it was with great difficulty that they scored. Mr. McTaggart did the greatest hitting (of wind), Mr. Jim' Pair's brilliant catching in centre field deserves spe- cial mention, also. Mr. Joe Ratten- bury and Mn Wiseman, .who thor, mighty distinguished themselves es all around players. Mr, Lack Ken- nedy and, "Roxey" Walken who is a great favorite here, received great applause from the ladies of Bayfield. Mr. Chidiey's curves and Mr. Clark's catching were so effective that the swore resulted in 5 to 4 in favor of Bayfield. * * WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY WAS YOUNG Prom The News -Record, July 16th, 1909: Mr. J. Taylor and wife sail for England on July 81st on the S. S. Dominion, of the White Star line; The following from town attended the Port Stanley excusien on. Wed- nesday: Harvey H. McBrien,` Amos Castle, John Biggins, 0, Overbury, C. Oliver, Mr. and Mrs. C. (Tolland and Miss May, J, W. Irwin, Mr, and Mrs. W. Hardy and the Misses Cor- nish. Mr. Phillip Roweliffe' of the Lon- don Road was awakened shortly af- ter midnight Tuesday by a commo- tion in his chicken house and on, running to the window saw two men just conning: out and running in dif- ferent directions. Mr. Rowell fe reachedforhis gun and fired at of the men as he was climbing over,'and Mrs. G. F. Brickenden, London. the fence.. The gun was loaded with . , . Mr, and "Mrs. Taylor leave this buckshot and Mr. Roweliffe is of the month for the Old Land for a couple opinion that it did not all go wide of of months' visit, house he only found two of the chicks inside, but all turned up in the morning. 'One of the most delightful events of the season was the garden party tendered their friends on Tuesday evening by Major and Mrs. M. D. McTaggart. The grounds were beautifully illuminated with electric' lights and Chinese lanterns and in a large tent erected on the lawn refreshments were served. Music was furnished by the Blackstone or, chestra. There were about one hun- dred present, who enjoyed the even- ing very much. While Councillor T, Jackson and Chief Wheatley were standing on the corner Monday chatting about the weather, the latter noticed a little lad of two years standing by his side . and freely expressed his opinion ofparents who allowed little children out in the crowded street alone. "I would like to tell the mother what T thing of her," said the Chief. "So would I," . echoed the councillor. The Chief then took the child in his ar'ns and asked his name and when the little chap replied and climbed over into the arms of Toni. Jacksonthe second you could have bought the Chief for thirty cents. He had for- gotten that there was a'Tcnn Jackson the third. winter killed most of the bugs,' which if, that is the reason, it is another ease of a blessing in disguise. -Blyth Standard. FOOLISH TO CHANGE Overheard by a local resident in one of Toronto's restaurants immed- iately before the election. Setting A group of •office men seated at the table. Elderly man, "I have always voted Conservative, I believed in the, Conservative policies, but intend to vote Liberal this time." Young up- start at other end, voting for first time, "Mr. So -and -So, I think you are very foolish. In times like these when we have a party fattened up why bring in another party to fatten, let the old ones stay, it will cost less." —Pickering News. *. "NOT A PARTY HACK" The Free Press is in receipt of a couple of emergent telegrams from individuals in New Ontario who de- scribe themselves as chairmen of Liberal campaign committees, They object to news about the On- tario provincial election campaign appearing in the Free'Press as not being agreeable to their idea as to the kind of despatches that ought to be appearing. They even go so far as to demand an explanation. The explanation is very simple. The Free Press is a newspaper and not a party hack. But there are some .peo ple who need to be reminded of this fact from time to time.- -Winnipeg Free Press. A DANGEROUS PRACTICE Because of the drought many farm- ers are experiencing difficulty in find- ing sufficient good grass on their; farm lands to pasture their cattle. This has resulted in many of them taking their cattle to the long .grass alongside the county and provincial roads. In most cases there is an at- tendant with thein, but in a few cas, es the cattle are left alone on the highway to graze. It need hardly be emphasized that this is a dangerous practice. There is not only danger of the cattle being killed by motorists speeding by, but also a danger of ser- ! sous automobile accidents to swell the already large list of fatal ones. At'thur Enterprise. PRETTY BIG, BUT IT'S TRUE This is a fish story that isn't a fish story— On Tuesday, IVlessrs. 13: McBurney and W. J. Freeman went out fishing, not far from here, and boy, were the speckled beauties biting! In this case the biggest didn't get away, • at least if it did we'd certainly like to see it. Mr. McBurney hauled out a trout measuring 15 inches long and tip- ping the scales at 1 ib. 10 oz. Mr. Freeman caste a close second with a one -pounder, measuring 121 inches. We honestly believe the fiishernen must have ardently repeated "The Angler's Prayer," which goes ,some"- thing ome=thing like this: Lord, give me grace to catch a fish So big that even I When 'tallcma, of it afterwards May never need to lie! ' Teeswater News. 96TH BIRTHDAY Mr. James Handford,' of town, cele- brated his 96th birthday on Friday of last week. A reception was held for him at his home by hit daughters and many of his old friends were present to do him honor. He was the recip- ient of several beautiful bouquets of flowers, a few telegrams ,and g great many cards from distant friends. The reception was held from 6 to 9 p.m. and receiving with 1Vfr. Handford were his three daughters, Mrs. Fos- ter and Mrs..Gritrith, of Toronto' and Miss Annie. The guests were served by Miss Bollman, of Goderich, Miss Winnifred I%ueston and Miss Lydia Stowert. Tea was served by Mrs. R. Stewart and Mrs. H. C. Rivers. A toast to Mr. Handford was proposed in a happy manner by Rev. Mr. Hunt and this was replied to en behalf of Mr. Handford by Mr. Geo. Holman, Goderich. Guests were present from Toronto, Kitchener and Goderich: —.Exeter Times-tAdvocate. TUT, MAN! CAN'T YOU LEARN ists and others who have to do with tho hymns at Sunday service insist on singing them to tunes which are not familiar. ;The majority of hymns have tunes which everyone learned in childhood and although there may be better tunes, and ones which enable the choir to vocalize to better advan- tage, they put the congregation out. Wie quite agree; that the choir should show what it can do in the anthem:, but when we go to church we like to sing, even though it may not be very. musical, and we are certain that oth- er members of the ,congregations feed the same. Kincardine Review -Reporter, WHEN LOVERS. LET THE REST OF THE WORLD GO BY Doan at Cooksvilie last week, a To- ronto man was fined $5 and -costs, which is not an'unusual occurrence in an Ontario town. But he also had to promise that he 'would never again drive slowly on the highways:. He had a young lady in the. ear with him, so you can guess the rest of the story. ,It seems that he was out driving on the Dundee highway on a Sunday af- ternoon, doing about 15 miles an hour. "Greatly interested" in • his the moon—or each other—this partic-. ,alar young man possibly didn't eveto hear the angry, impatient or sarcas- tic shouts of .eighteen: auto horns lin- ed up behind him, unable to pass on account of traffic, and not willing to, crawl along at fifteen miles per hour. Like him, they may have been go- ing nowhere in particular, but. they wanted to get there sn a hurry. Possibly had they known what. was bolting up the parade, they might have recalled the good old days when they themselves threw the lines over the .dash -board, and let Old Dobbin have his own way as they sang love's. old sweet song to their ladies. Dove seems to have speeded up. Apparently you have to "do your stuff" nowadays while speeding along - at 50 miles an hour. Anyway, the young than was fined,. and told to "step on st" in future. It doesn't seem just. The League for the Defence of Courting ought to take the Case to a. higher tribunal. It's reached a pretty pass when a fellow can't take his girl antfor a 'motor drive without being forced to keep both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road. Either that, or Society will have to restore the old-fashioned parlor.. --Hanover Post.. lady ,companion, as he described it to the court, he failed to realize that there was anything else in the world TUNE? that mattered. • THE NEWS -RECORD A YEWLike two lovers sitting in a park, We can't understand whyorgan- ma be holdinghands and —IT WILL PAY YOU— maybe gazing at READ ALL 'THE ADS. IN' 8000 people celebrated the Glorious 12th in Clinton. It was one of the most succesbful demonstrations in the history of Huron. The Clinton fife and drum band was on duty for ten hours and marched as jauntily and played as snappily in the evening as in the morning, Mr. Fred Match is the leader. The prize for the largest lodge was won by Lcndesboro and for the lodge coining the; greatest distance, by Granton. The prizes for those having been members the greatest length of time were won by George Ruddell of Lordesboro and. Wm. Johnstone of Seaforth. At 2.30 the various lodges formed in the park and passed out the east gate, traversed William, Victoria and Albert streets and entered the park at the west gate and ,came to order around the speaker's stand Mr. Walter Coursey, County Master, cal- led the assemblage to order and in- troduced the several speakers . Mayor W'iltse, on behalf of himself and the citizens, welcomed the breth- ren of the different lodges to the town, Mr. Lewis, Crediton, Rev. Jas. Livingston, Rev. C. R. Gunne, Rev. W. J. Jolliffe and Rev. W. H. Dunbar were the speakers, Mr. Peter Cantelon, secretary of Clinton Lodge, workedday and night to make a success of the celebration. No. 145, Goderich township, has a splendid fife and drum band, which looked natty with its white caps and coats .. , The members are Peter, Young, Ben Cox, Dick Young, Ben Lindsay, Wes. Cox, Z. Young, C. Mc Ilwaine, Geo. Lindsay, Milton Woods, John Storey, Ed. Elliott, Cam. Twee- dy, Fred Bali, Tom Bell and Billy Wil- son. Milton Woods is leader and Tom Bell is drum major. The arches were well constructed, needless to say. They were built by Mr. D. Cantelon. Summerhill fife and drum band, which won first prize, had the follow- ing membership: C. S. Lowery, John, Robert and Lew. Johnston, Joseph Rapson, Wan. Beacom, Thos. Chur- chill, Wan. Jordan, Ogle Miller, Or- ville Rapson, Ira Rapson, Chas, Tyn- er and Win. Walker, %Prom The New Era, July 15th, 1909: We are pleased to announce that Miss Flossie Pearson has been suc- cessful in passing her junior examin- ation in connection with the Toronto Conservatory of Music . . . also Mr. George Pearson his recent theory ex - imitation with first class honours. Mrs. Thos. McDonald of Porter.'s. Hill called at the New Eta office this week and presented to our view to- matoes ripe on July llth. A feature that tickelii' the old members of the Orange Order on, Monday was the drumming of Mas, ters Willie and Fred Mutch, while their father, Fred Mutch,,played the. fife. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Taylor cele- brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage on July 9th at their residence, Townsend street . A- mong mong those present from out of town were: Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Taylor, Toronto; Mr. Israel Taylor, London; Mr. Wall 'Bric- kenden, Mrs. T. E. Brickenden,- Mr. r WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING A BLESSING. 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